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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Audit each guide URL in guides.csv for WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility issues.
+
+This variant fetches every page with **curl** first (avoiding the headless
+browser network request) and then runs **pa11y** on the downloaded HTML
+file.  Issues that appear in *every* guide are filtered out; all others
+are reported.
+
+Output: output_curl.txt
+Usage:
+    python check_wcag_curl.py
+Prerequisites:
+    • curl (command-line tool, usually pre-installed)
+    • pa11y  (npm install -g pa11y   # or available via npx)
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import csv
+import json
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Set
+
+GUIDES_CSV = Path(__file__).with_name("guides.csv")
+OUTPUT_FILE = Path("output_curl.txt")
+
+
+def fetch_html(url: str) -> str | None:
+    """Return HTML for the URL using curl, or None on failure."""
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["curl", "-L", "-sS", url],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        check=False,
+    )
+    if result.returncode != 0:
+        print(f"[ERROR] curl failed ({result.returncode}) for {url}", file=sys.stderr)
+        if result.stderr:
+            print(result.stderr, file=sys.stderr)
+        return None
+    return result.stdout
+
+
+def run_pa11y_on_html(html: str) -> List[dict]:
+    """Run pa11y on the provided HTML string and return parsed issues list."""
+    # Write HTML to a temporary file
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".html", delete=False) as tmp:
+        tmp.write(html.encode("utf-8"))
+        tmp_path = Path(tmp.name)
+
+    cmd_base = ["pa11y"] if shutil.which("pa11y") else ["npx", "pa11y"]
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [*cmd_base, f"file://{tmp_path}", "--standard", "WCAG2AA", "--reporter", "json"],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        check=False,
+    )
+
+    # Clean up temp file
+    tmp_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+
+    # pa11y exits 0 (no issues) or 1 (issues found) → both acceptable
+    if result.returncode not in (0, 1):
+        print(f"[ERROR] pa11y failed ({result.returncode})", file=sys.stderr)
+        if result.stderr:
+            print(result.stderr, file=sys.stderr)
+        return []
+
+    if not result.stdout or not result.stdout.strip():
+        print("[WARN] pa11y produced no JSON output", file=sys.stderr)
+        if result.stderr:
+            print(result.stderr, file=sys.stderr)
+        return []
+
+    try:
+        return json.loads(result.stdout)
+    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+        print(result.stdout, file=sys.stderr)
+        print("[WARN] Could not parse pa11y JSON output", file=sys.stderr)
+        return []
+
+
+def read_guides(csv_path: Path) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
+    with csv_path.open(newline="", encoding="utf-8-sig") as fh:
+        return list(csv.DictReader(fh))
+
+
+def compute_common_codes(issues_by_guide: Dict[str, List[dict]]) -> Set[str]:
+    common: Set[str] | None = None
+    for issues in issues_by_guide.values():
+        codes = {i["code"] for i in issues}
+        common = codes if common is None else common & codes
+    return common or set()
+
+
+def format_issue(issue: dict) -> str:
+    selector = (issue.get("selector") or "").strip() or "N/A"
+    return f"[{issue['type']}] {issue['code']}: {issue['message']}  (selector: {selector})"
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    guides = read_guides(GUIDES_CSV)
+    issues_by_guide: Dict[str, List[dict]] = {}
+
+    print("Auditing guides with curl + pa11y…\n")
+    for guide in guides:
+        name, url = guide["Name"], guide["URL"]
+        print(f"• {name} — {url}")
+
+        html = fetch_html(url)
+        if html is None:
+            issues_by_guide[name] = []
+            continue
+
+        issues_by_guide[name] = run_pa11y_on_html(html)
+
+    common_codes = compute_common_codes(issues_by_guide)
+
+    lines: List[str] = []
+    lines.append("Accessibility report (WCAG 2.1 AA — unique issues only, curl fetch)")
+    lines.append("=" * 65)
+
+    for name, issues in issues_by_guide.items():
+        unique = [i for i in issues if i["code"] not in common_codes]
+        lines.append(f"\nGuide: {name}")
+        if not unique:
+            lines.append("  ✔ No unique issues found.")
+            continue
+        for issue in unique:
+            lines.append(f"  • {format_issue(issue)}")
+
+    report = "\n".join(lines)
+    print("\n" + report)
+    OUTPUT_FILE.write_text(report, encoding="utf-8")
+    print(f"\nReport written to {OUTPUT_FILE.resolve()}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()